Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has recently compiled a report on The Google Library Project: Is Digitization for Purposes of Online Indexing Fair Use Under Copyright Law? The report offers some background of the project and discusses the legal implications: “First, does an entity conducting an unauthorized digitization and indexing project avoid committing copyright infringement …
Next month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hold a public hearing regarding the proposed amendments to the state’s discovery rules that specifically pertain to electronic discovery. According to the Wisconsin Lawyer The amendments are adapted from the Uniform Rules on the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information and the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of …
Greg Lambert over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog reports on his conversation with Google Scholar Chief Engineer Anurag Acharya. First of all, let me address the questions that I’m sure a lot of you have been asking: “Can Google Scholar Legal and Online Journal replace my Westlaw or Lexis content?” My answer: “Absolutely …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Law, Politics, and Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries by Heinz Klug Resolving Problems Among Neighbors in Post-Soviet Russia: Uncovering the Law of the Pod”ezd by Kathryn Hendley A Legal Regime for the Mining of Helium-3 …
Madison Public Library has acquired an online subscription to the Value Line Investment Survey. The service is available at all nine Madison public libraries or remotely to city of Madison residents with valid library cards. From Check It Out: Value Line is best known for the Investment Survey, one of the most widely read investment …
On December 1, 2009, new time computation amendments to the federal rules and statutes will become effective. The Time Computation Project, as it is called, proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Appellate Procedure, and Bankruptcy Rules. According to the Standing Rules Committee, “The principal simplifying change in these rules is …
The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Judiciary and Ethics heard testimony Tuesday on a bill raising the dollar limit in small claims court. (Assembly Bill 524) The current dollar limit in small claims court is $5,000. The bill would raise it to $10,000 if the person bringing the action has commenced 20 or fewer actions in …
There is a new database available on BadgerLink* called HeritageQuest Online. It offers a treasury of American genealogical sources, including some legal material. HeritageQuest Online contains the following: U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1930, with name indexes for many decades. In …
The New York Times reports that Google is closing a loophole which allowed users to access large numbers of articles on subscription-based sites without paying for them. The company’s “First Click Free” program, which publishers of pay sites can choose to participate in, is designed to allow readers to get a taste of a site’s …
I learned yesterday that WisBlawg subscriptions are available for the Kindle. To view blogs on the Kindle, apparently you have to pay for the convenience. WisBlawg is listed at $1.99 / month. Personally, I’d rather get my blogs for free on the web – with as many as I subscribe to, I’d go broke if …